SUMMER RED-BIRD. 
yellow. I suppose," concludes Edwards, 
Catesby found it to feed on Flies, and other 
inse£ls ; because he has given it the Latin 
name of Muscicapa Rubra." 
This is the entire account, as given by 
Edwards, of the Summer Red-Bird. We find, 
however, that Mr. Smellie, the ingenious 
translator of Buffon, gives, as synonyms with 
the Summer Red-Bird of Catesby, the Canada 
Tanagre of BufFon, the Tanagra Rubra of 
Gmelin, the Cardinalis Canadensis of Brisson, 
and the Red Tanagre of Pennant and Latham. 
If this application be corre£l, of which we 
entertain some doubt, though we possess no 
&ufficent documents to disprove, the descriptions 
of Edwards must appear very defe£live, on a 
comparison with that of BufFon, which we 
shall here take the liberty to extradl verbatim , 
as translated by Smellie. 
*^ This bird differs from, the Scarlet Tana- 
gre, by it's size and plum.age. It is smaller, 
and of a hght flame-colour. It's bill is entirely 
of a lead-colour, and has none of the peculiar 
chara6lers : while, in the Scarlet Tanagre, the 
upper part of the bill is of a deep black ; and 
the 
